Team Leader, Cold Chain, Beef

Silver Fern Farms Ltd; Te Aroha; On-site; NZD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Silver Fern Farms Ltd seeks an experienced Team Leader - Cold Chain to guide a production team in delivering safe, high-quality outcomes. You will provide daily leadership, set clear expectations, and promote a culture built on respect, accountability, teamwork, safety and continuous improvement.

You will lead with a practical, energetic and accountable approach, ensuring compliance with food safety standards while collaborating with QA, Engineering and other departments to meet production

Qualifications

• Strong communication skills with the ability to give clear directions and constructive feedback.
• Good attention to detail and confidence working in a fast-moving production environment.
• Sound understanding of product specifications, customer requirements, food safety and hygiene compliance.
• Ability to work effectively with different teams and build positive working relationships.
• Willingness to complete all required leadership, health and safety, compliance and operational training.
• A practical, energetic and accountable approach to achieving team and business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead, guide and support team members to achieve production, specification, quality, hygiene and health and safety requirements.
• Clearly communicate daily production plans and ensure the team understands delivery expectations.
• Build an uncompromising safety culture and act promptly where standards are not being met.
• Monitor performance, attendance, compliance and workplace behaviours, escalating serious concerns when required.
• Maintain accurate, secure and confidential injury, medical and rehabilitation records.
• Work closely with processing teams, QA, Engineering, Department Leaders and other internal stakeholders.
• Champion continuous improvement through Streamline, line meetings, waste reduction and practical problem solving.
• Support sustainability, environmental and reporting requirements, including daily KPI exceptions.

Skills

Strong communication

Attention to detail

Food safety knowledge

Cross-team collaboration

Leadership training

Accountability

Job description

Te Tūranga /About The Role

Our Team Leader- Cold Chain is an important leadership role responsible for supporting a production team to deliver safe, high quality, compliant and efficient outcomes every day.

The successful candidate will provide day to day leadership, ensure team members understand expectations and production targets, and help embed a positive team culture built on respect, accountability, teamwork, safety and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, guide and support team members to achieve production, specification, quality, hygiene and health and safety requirements.
• Clearly communicate daily production plans and ensure the team understands delivery expectations.
• Build an uncompromising safety culture and act promptly where standards are not being met.
• Monitor performance, attendance, compliance and workplace behaviours, escalating serious concerns when required.
• Maintain accurate, secure and confidential injury, medical and rehabilitation records.
• Work closely with processing teams, QA, Engineering, Department Leaders and other internal stakeholders.
• Champion continuous improvement through Streamline, line meetings, waste reduction and practical problem solving.
• Support sustainability, environmental and reporting requirements, including daily KPI exceptions

Ōu Pūkenga /About You

• Strong communication skills, with the ability to give clear directions and constructive feedback.
• Good attention to detail and confidence working in a fast-moving production environment.
• Sound understanding of product specifications, customer requirements, food safety and hygiene compliance.
• Ability to work effectively with different teams and build positive working relationships.
• Willingness to complete all required leadership, health and safety, compliance and operational training
• A practical, energetic and accountable approach to achieving team and business outcomes.

Te Ahurea /Why work at Silver Fern Farms?

Silver Fern Farms are all about Creating Goodness from the Farms the World Needs. Creating goodness is about taking a broader view of what goodness means, how we can create it and the impact it can have. That Goodness is created through the work of our People, the skill & expertise of our Farmers and our customers around the globe. ‘Goodness’ is also about being good to people and communities, animal welfare, and showing care and respect for the environment.

For you, we offer:

• discounted staff meat sales
• uniform
• confidential employee assistance with career planning, financial advice and counselling.

Silver Fern Farms welcomes people from all backgrounds and walks of life. We are proud to have a diverse and inclusive environment and are committed to providing equal opportunities for all team members and applicants. Come and create goodness together with us.

You can see more about our commitments to our people and their work by visiting our Belong Here webpage: https://careers.silverfernfarms.com/nz/en/belong-here